AA is showing a great rate for some far out dates. Keep in mind that AA is in bankruptcy and USAIR is trying to do a merger with them. There is a chance that your ticket might not be good by the time you get ready to use it. A current or close date would probably be safe but I was afraid to pick AA for our next May trip.

We were looking for a nonstop from MO this time and found out about apple vacations that flies from st. Louis. Just search on their site for flight only. They fly twice a week during the busy season. Otherwise we flew delta both times before.

We booked through apple vacations (the only travel agent in our small town worked through them) and there are nonstop charter flights from st. Louis to Montego Bay that run twice a week(I think?). It was offered to us with our package but we needed to fly out from Bloomington(where my sister lives) because she is keeping my daughter for the week. If my memory serves me correctly, the charters were on Wednesday and Saturday and the price was the same as our 1 stop trip with a connection in Atlanta. Hope this helps!

We booked through apple and flew on frontier airlines non stop out of st louis. When we went last month we flew on a Wednesday and we just booked for January 2013 and are flying on the same flight on a Saturday.

We used to drive to STL, spend the night and fly out early on the charters. Past 4 or 5 visits we have just stayed home, took a cab to our small airport (SGF) and used delta. Out early, MBJ by noonish, cheaper than going to STL.

STL Flights

We always hit up CN the week after Thanksgiving.

We've flown every option, including Charter, out of STL except for AA through Miami. The best used to be Northwest/Delta through Memphis but it's not offered anymore. We usually fly USAirways through Charlotte. Those flights leave STL at 6 a.m. and Land in MoBay at 12:47. They have been expensive this year.

This year we booked Delta through ATL. We fly out of STL at 5:55 a.m. and land in MoBay at 12:45! I found a good deal one day and the next day it was super expensive again.

I did find our friends super cheap flights on AA through Miami. They only paid $792 total for the both of them.

Charter is great but they never book early enough to get the resort credit offer.

We just flew a non-stop 10 day round trip to Jamaica from St. Louis on Frontier Airlines. It is a charter through Apple Vacations, or FunJet Vacations. But you can also book directly on Frontier, if they have open seats. Right now Frontier is only taking bookings through January 6, 2013. But you can book through Apple or FunJet for farther out in 2013. The Frontier charter non-stop currently flies only on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Thought I would post that we just booked our flights from STL with US Air for next June. Total cost for the two of us with travel insurance was just over $1100. This sounds high on the face of it but it is about $300 less than what our flights for this past June cost us, so we took it while we could. I suppose we could play the waiting game and see if the prices go lower, but I don't think they will go appreciably lower than what we got, and there is a good chance they will only go up. So we took the plunge and I am happy with what we got. We are scheduled to arrive in Mobay before noon, which is good. And our departure time is after noon so we can at least get breakfast at Palms before we board the go-home bus.

We had booked our room last month with the early booking special, so we are all in.

All in all we saved nearly $500 over this years trip. Not bad for a week at our favorite place on earth.